matchwood

How To Use matchwood In A Sentence

• As we left Stavanger behind, we moved out of the shelter of the Sande headland into open water and the full force of the waves hit us, rocking our little boat like a piece of matchwood.
• She'll be smashed to matchwood in a minute, the after-fall has unshipped; "then whipping a knife from the belt of one of them he severed the remaining fall, and saw the boat plunge down sternwards and outwards from the side just in time; another half-minute and she would have disappeared under the steamer's bottom to be hopelessly stove in. Tessa 1901
• My new fear was that the paddle-boxes would be stove into matchwood this actually happened to the Ostend boat that same night about 40 miles away and naked paddle wheels are rather dangerous things. Weatherwatch
• 'fluked' and the crew are tossed high in air, with their boat crushed into matchwood, or meets with some other disaster. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
• Orsini brought the chair down again and again until it splintered into matchwood. THE KEYS OF HELL
• He did, however, blow his bottom off and reduce the kitchen to splintered matchwood.
• He signed for his new home at 11 am on Christmas Eve, which by dawn on Christmas day was matchwood.
• In the cheap bar of the spendy restaurant, I was told that the Army Corps of Engineers had built a breakwater so ineffectual that any boat taking overnight shelter behind it was likely to be smashed to matchwood on the rocks.
• A strangled scream escaped my throat as the great white shark ripped the protective cage to pieces, as if it was made of matchwood…
• it was smashed into matchwood